Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Another Derby railroad hearing last eve ming The opponents of the sale are not making out very strong case.
 During the last hours of the session of the California legislature when the San Francisco lobby was rushing bills through by the score a member moved that each member be al lowed to carry off his desk and chair, and that the dome of the capitol be given to the San Francisco delegation. This was hardly less absurd than some of the motions that were adopted.
 The editor of the Inter-Idaho doesn't seem to be on good terms with the editor of the Boise Statesman. In recent number he refers to his brother Corrupt whelp of Satan" who is Ca cancerous excrescence" polluting the fair name of the city of Boise. He says that he intends to keep on hurling hot shot at him from his editorial locker un- til ''the thin mantle of quasi-respectabilit is torn from his shoulder, revealing him as he really is-reeking with corruption, moral ly leprous, stained, debased, despised abhorrent, abominated, detested, scoffed at, reviled, liar and sneak"
 In a paper entitled "The Handwriting of the Insane" recently read in Philadelphia, Mrs. Henry Hazlehurst said that the giving way of the mind in an educated person was often shown in bad spelling, plotting, ire quent ensures, the absurd of parenthe- ses, italicization and underscoring in excess. Insane pride and obstinacy take to capitals, and, it is said, make frequent use of the let
 ter "P,' which becomes perfectly enormous. Many of these indications were to be found in the handwriting of ex-Sherif Rowan, who recently became insane. In him, too, was noted another peculiarity, tendency to com mence at the right instead of the left hand side of the paper, this being carried so far that often he would not leave himself room on the paper to complete even his signature.
 Colonel W. L. Ut1ey, who recently died at Racine, Wisconsin, was the owner of the last slave on American soil When he was in Tennessee with his regiment colored boy escaped from his master and sought refuge in the colonel's tent The owner came into camp the next day and demanded the sur render of his property, but Colonel Utley re- fused to give up the boy. Several years af- terward the slave owner brought suit in the United States court in the Milwaukee district for damages, and secured a verdict of $1, ,OOO, which Colonel Utley paid. 'This," says correspondent, twas the last judgment of the kind that blots the records of justice Colonel Utley applied to Congress for relief, and more than ten years after the emancipa- ton proclamation he was indemnified by the government for the money he gave for the boys freedom"
 The work accomplished in London through the Peabody fund is grand one. MT. Pea bodys gift was s2, ,5O0,OOO The last report of the trustees shows that by rents and in terest this has now been increased to more than s4, 55o, 900. Up to the close of last year 1 there have been provided for the Iaboring poor of London II ,150 rooms, besides bath rooms, laundries, etc., which have been occu- pied by 20, ,22S persons. These rooms are in 5,014 separate dwelling houses, "A having four rooms, 1,732 three rooms, 2,350 two | rooms and sos one room each The average rent has been about $1. IS per week for each
 house. or 52 cents per week for each room, | Including free use of water, laundries, bath | rooms, etc. But low rent has not been the | oAuy oooA to tne occupants The sanitary
 conditions have presented remarkable con
 trast to those of the sweltering stews of Lon
 don tenements, as may be seen in the vital statistics. The birth rate for 1886 was more
 than % per cent higher than that of all Lon
 don, the total death rate was nearly 3 per
 cent. below the average, and the infant mor-
 tality was per cent. below the rate for all | London And with such benefcent results
 there was also business profit on the in 1 vestment of nearly $150,000.
 The English seem to have learned some ] thing since the days of the Alabama. A case